Development of Job Stress Scale for School Health Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the scale to measure job stress for school health teachers. Methods: It was performed through three steps. In the first step, open questionnaire was provided for 200 school health teachers to obtain subjective data on their job stress, based on which, 71 questions were created. In the second step, the 38 questions were developed by classifying through exploratory factor analysis of the first 71 questions and conducting pilot tests. In the third step, 26 questions were finally chosen through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, and verified the differences of school health teachers' job stress by general characteristics using this final scale. Results: Exploratory factor analysis was approved as the suitable factor analysis (χ 2 =3178.53, df=325, p=.000, KMO=.932). Confirmatory factor analysis showed acceptability of construct validity (CR>0.5, all factor), convergent validity, (CR, AVE more than marginal value),and discriminant validity (squared multiple correlation<AVE). One-way ANOVA and independent t-test showed that there was significant difference in job stress scores according to level of school. Student & families factor gained highest score in the all school levels. The average level of job stress in order of highest to lowest was elementary, high, middle, special school (p<0.01, p<0.001). Conclusion: This study developed the scale to measure job stress for school health teachers of 5 factors and 26 questions and the scale was approved as suitable one. It was suggested that studies on the relationship between health teachers personality characteristics and job stress ' should be conducted.